Because I’m such a movie lover, I’ve always followed actors’ deaths pretty closely, but even at that I sometimes miss one. An actor’s passing usually causes a flurry of obits which are then quickly overshadowed by other news, especially news of another actor’s death at the same time or shortly thereafter, which happens a lot. Bit of trivia about Nielson: he was a serious actor years before he became a comic one in movies like “Airplane” and “Police Squad.” Check out the 1956 sci-fi cult movie, Forbidden Planet, which was based on Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and a direct source for “Star Trek.”